The ball is in my court... or is it field??

Since this is my first footblog i would like to make it a short but sweet one... The 1st thing that a non footballer would notice is the name of the page... Bafana Bafana!! Sounds like one of the words that 1 would hear in the opening sequence of a Harris Jayaraj song( The man behind scores of Tamil songs and RHTDM of course!!) Well i was searching for a cool name( Deja Vu!) and i thought Bafana... would make a weird but cool name... Well now coming to what Bafana is all about... The South African soccer team's nickname is Bafana Bafana for reasons that i am unable to find till this minute... One of the reasons i don't the reasons is that i have never tried finding it out... Anywayz...

1 thing i will make clear is that i won't be using the word soccer though i have noticed that i have used it in the previous para... After all one cant go behind the Americans for anything and everything... So wherever i use football it means SOCCER and not American Football or something like that...


As you all must be knowing football is the most popular sport in the world and the FIFA Football World Cup is the 2nd most watched sporting event after the Olympics... Football's popularity among the masses has virtually made it an industry... The likes of Beckham, Zidane etc are known throughout the world not just for their football but the no. of ads that they appear in...

Though the World Cup is regarded the "baap" of all football events club football is fast overshadowing international football... Actually the use of the present tense in the above statement is an understatement... Club football has overshadowed intl football is a better way of putting it... rather its the best way of putting it... Club football has reached dizzying heights... In terms of money, clubs dont deal in thousands or hundreds... they deal in millions...( Dollars... Pounds!!)... Club football rules the roost... The World Cup is fast becoming an event that just breaks the monotony of club football...

Anyway i will be back to update this blog... Sorry for ending this 1 so very abruptly... When i think of football there are just too many issues that i can think of, and i am not able to place my brains on the ones that matter the most... Anyway keep waiting.. At least for a few more days...